Court Correspondent :
A Dhaka court has again rejected bail petitions of cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore and writer Mushtaq Ahmed in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.
Judge KM Emrul Kayesh of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka passed the order on Wednesday after their lawyer Jyotirmoy Barua submitted two separate petitions seeking bail in the case.
On June 16 last year, another Dhaka court rejected bail of four accused including the two in the case.
The two other accused, an activist of the platform “Rastrachinta” Didarul Islam Bhuiyan, and businessman Minhaj Mannan Emon, were earlier granted bail in the case.
The four were arrested from different places of the capital in May and were sent to jail after being produced before two separate Dhaka courts on May 6 and 7 respectively.
Eleven people — including the four arrestees — were charged with “spreading rumours and carrying out anti-government activities” under the Digital Security Act on May 6.
Swedish-Bangladeshi journalist Tasneem Khalil, who runs Netra News, US-based journalist Shahed Alam and blogger Asif Mohiuddin are also among those named in the case.
A Dhaka court has again rejected bail petitions of cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore and writer Mushtaq Ahmed in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.
Judge KM Emrul Kayesh of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka passed the order on Wednesday after their lawyer Jyotirmoy Barua submitted two separate petitions seeking bail in the case.
On June 16 last year, another Dhaka court rejected bail of four accused including the two in the case.
The two other accused, an activist of the platform “Rastrachinta” Didarul Islam Bhuiyan, and businessman Minhaj Mannan Emon, were earlier granted bail in the case.
The four were arrested from different places of the capital in May and were sent to jail after being produced before two separate Dhaka courts on May 6 and 7 respectively.
Eleven people — including the four arrestees — were charged with “spreading rumours and carrying out anti-government activities” under the Digital Security Act on May 6.
Swedish-Bangladeshi journalist Tasneem Khalil, who runs Netra News, US-based journalist Shahed Alam and blogger Asif Mohiuddin are also among those named in the case.
